http://spong.com/ Daily Video Games News from SPOnG.com SPOnG RSS syndicator http://backend.userland.com/rss en-gb /Top/Games/Video_Games/ /Top/Games/Video_Games/News_and_Reviews/ Copyright 1996-2013 SPOnG.com Ltd. 5 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 19 20 21 22 23 Saturday Sunday http://spong.com/article/29592/SEGA-and-Nintendo-Hand-in-Glove-as-Console-Gaming-Chokes-on-Own-Complacency Deals signed by the two great rivals suggest Japan is closing doors [Posted 17 May 2013 by Tim Smith]

SEGA and Nintendo are joining forces in a mutual show of either need or strength but definitely of Japanese collectivism with a new distribution deal as well as exclusivity on Sonic the Hedgehog titles. Is this is brave new stance or a last ditch defence as consoles and console gaming shuffles off the main battlefield to become a side-skirmish? ... click to read full item ]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 16:23:00 +0100 http://spong.com/article/29592/SEGA-and-Nintendo-Hand-in-Glove-as-Console-Gaming-Chokes-on-Own-Complacency http://spong.com/article/29590/Nintendo-Gets-Sonic-Confirmed-Again Nintendo Direct announces games galore [Posted 17 May 2013 by Tim Smith]

Nintendo really needs some help with Wii U if it's not going to be seen as the failed console of this generation. Today's pre-E3 and pre-Microsoft Next-Xbox announcement is a big and important event for the company. While you can watch the stream of the official, Iwata-speaks-to-the-public Nintendo Direct video below (with no room for difficult questions such as ... click to read full item ]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 15:00:00 +0100 http://spong.com/article/29590/Nintendo-Gets-Sonic-Confirmed-Again http://spong.com/nibble/29589/Remember-Me-Trailer-has-Words [Posted 17 May 2013 by Tim Smith]

Remember Me - a preview of which we have your delectation - is a hilarious farce involving custard pie gags and sexual tension with no resolution. Or...

Or it's a Sci-Fi epic set in a future dystopian environment that includes Neo-Paris. It either involves hilarious misconceptions between people of different cultural norms in a ... click to read full item ]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 14:20:00 +0100 http://spong.com/nibble/29589/Remember-Me-Trailer-has-Words http://spong.com/feature/10111034/Preview-The-Last-of-Us Survival of the fittest. [Posted 17 May 2013 by Svend Joscelyne]

The Last of Us is not a survival horror, according to developer Naughty Dog. But, to draw comparisons with the genre is not to discredit the studio’s impressive work on the title. For years, we’ve all been crying out for a game that offers the pacing and tone of classic Capcom thrillers of the 1990s. And the two ... click to read full item ]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 13:30:00 +0100 http://spong.com/feature/10111034/Preview-The-Last-of-Us http://spong.com/nibble/29588/Sick-Filthy-Outrageous-Outrage-on-PlayStation-Network-as-Manhunt-Re-Released [Posted 17 May 2013 by Tim Smith]

Oh God in Heaven it's a slow news day! Whoops, it's an Outrage that our Youth should be forced to play this vile re-released muck having first downloaded it from PSN!! Out-bloody-rageous!

We speak, of course of Manhunt the vile sick filthy filth from Rockstar game that caused lots of outrage when it came out in ... click to read full item ]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 12:01:00 +0100 http://spong.com/nibble/29588/Sick-Filthy-Outrageous-Outrage-on-PlayStation-Network-as-Manhunt-Re-Released http://spong.com/nibble/29587/PlayStation-Job-Posting-Suggests-PS4-Speech-Recognition [Posted 17 May 2013 by Svend Joscelyne]

The launch of the PlayStation 4 will herald the coming of a brand new DualShock controller. It will also herald the implementation of built-in voice recognition according to a LinkedIn job post.

The listing seeks a 'Speech Recognition Engineering Intern'. The role requires "some previous knowledge of speech recognition and signal processing" and will require ... click to read full item ]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 11:39:00 +0100 http://spong.com/nibble/29587/PlayStation-Job-Posting-Suggests-PS4-Speech-Recognition http://spong.com/nibble/29586/GameStop-Scraps-Pre-Orders-for-Rainbow-Six-Patriots [Posted 17 May 2013 by Svend Joscelyne]

Something strange is going on at US retailer GameStop. The chain has decided to chuck out all pre-orders for Ubisoft's upcoming squad shooter, Rainbow Six: Patriots, leading some to suggest that the publisher is having some trouble with the project.

It could simply be the case that GameStop is being a bit odd about things, given ... click to read full item ]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 11:16:00 +0100 http://spong.com/nibble/29586/GameStop-Scraps-Pre-Orders-for-Rainbow-Six-Patriots http://spong.com/nibble/29585/New-DriveClub-Screenshots-Emerge [Posted 17 May 2013 by Svend Joscelyne]

Fresh screenshots for Evolution Studios' PS4 debut, DriveClub, have surfaced online - before Polyphony Digital's PS3 driving simulator Gran Turismo 6 has even got its hype tyres warm.

Take a look at the shots in the gallery on this page. They show off some of the impressive car models that will be featured ... click to read full item ]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 10:44:00 +0100 http://spong.com/nibble/29585/New-DriveClub-Screenshots-Emerge http://spong.com/article/29584/Sony-Registers-Domains-for-The-Last-of-Us-2-and-3 Future titles? Or simply protecting its IP? [Posted 17 May 2013 by Svend Joscelyne]

Sony is clearly impressed with Naughty Dog's latest IP - the PlayStation maker has just registered domain names for The Last of Us 2 and 3, leading some to speculate that there's intentions to transform the PS3 swansong into a long-term franchise.

The activity was spotted by internet super sleuth Superannuation, but doesn't necessarily confirm ... click to read full item ]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 10:21:00 +0100 http://spong.com/article/29584/Sony-Registers-Domains-for-The-Last-of-Us-2-and-3 http://spong.com/nibble/29583/Microsoft-Next-Xbox-News-Propaganda-Machine-Kicks-In [Posted 17 May 2013 by Tim Smith]

Gone are the days when news wasn't as tightly controlled for consumer electronics as for military hardware. Microsoft is leaving nothing to chance when it comes to close control of the news of its next Xbox games console.

The company is launching the new machine on May 21st in the USA, actually on its very own 'campus' ... click to read full item ]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 10:20:00 +0100 http://spong.com/nibble/29583/Microsoft-Next-Xbox-News-Propaganda-Machine-Kicks-In